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I was going through the numpy tutorials and found import roslib; roslib.load_manifest('YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME') in the beginning of the publisher and subscriber code. I never saw them while following the tutorials for publisher and subscriber for ros hydro. What is the need for rosblib.load_manifest?
In large projects, your code might depend on many external packages. A manifest contain meta-information about what your software is doing and how to set it up. The documentation is quite exhaustive on the topic: wiki.ros.org/Manifest
Practically speaking, you can very well just "import roslib; import rospy" and your code will still work. You might however want to think of writing a manifest as soon as you start depending on other libraries and want to share you code with other people.
Asked: 2014-04-30 09:37:14 -0500
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Last updated: Apr 30 '14
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